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As is customary, when I visited my grandchildren this time round, I asked them for their wish list of books. The younger one, all of nine years, said she wants nothing but Roald Dahl. She has read them all and she thinks that, that is all there is to good writing.
Roald Dahl, as we all know wrote for children, but wrote some titillating stuff for adult reading as well. To wean her away and to tickle her taste buds I had given her my favourite Thurber stories, 'Many Moons' and 'The 13 Clocks' which she read with diligence but without much excitement. Her mental landscape is so taken up with Roald Dahl that it leaves no space for other competitors.